Excerpt from Eaton Family of Dedham and the Powder House Rock On account of the excellent grass growing on the meadows of the Neponset River the first Dedham people took up lots there and visited them in the haying season. Some items in the inventory of the estate of John Eaton1 relating to the Fowl Meadows as they were then and have ever since been called, seemed to confirm the tra dition that his dwelling was in that vicinity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.